A is for Aden and Z is for Zanzabar

A is for Aden and Z is for Zanzibar... Now what is between? For the world wide classical era philatelist and stamp collector, a country specific philatelic survey is offered by the blog author, Jim Jackson, with two albums: Big Blue, aka Scott International Part 1 (checklists available), and Deep Blue, aka William Steiner's Stamp Album Web PDF pages. Interested? So into the Blues...

Saturday, May 13, 2017

Caroline Islands - Bud's Big Blue

Bud's Big BlueBud's Observations

More German
colonial yacht stamps!

Two cancels,
if they’re authentic, are interesting. The first is a “Deutsche Seepost, Sydney
to Hong Kong” cancel on the 10pf. Mail-carrying steamers, operated first by
Reich Mail Steamer Lines and after 1902 by the Jaluit Company, made regular stops
in the Carolines. Ponape, The 1901 postmark on the 20p, is the largest island
in the archipelago.

A great deal
is made of the angles of the “Karolinen” overprints on the 1899-1900 issues.
See Jim’s main blog. On the 3pf in BB’s designated space, the angle is 56°
while it’s 48° on the 10pf and 20pf shown on the supplement page.

Census:
seven in BB spaces, one tip-in, three on supplement page.

Jim's ObservationsThe 1899 issue was overprinted at a 48 degree angle (Scott 1a-6a); while the 1900 production was overprinted at a 56 degree angle (Scott1-6). Big Blue labels the one illustrated stamp space "1899", but it is clearly a 1900 issue with the overprinted 56 degree angle. Good thing, as the 1899 issue stamps are quite expensive.

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After thirty years of being away, I resumed my 1840-1940 worldwide collection in 2011. I initially settled on Big Blue, the Scott International Volume (Part) 1. But there was no checklist: - until now. You can see the results with my blog posts.
In the meantime, I began to put my collection in the WW classic Steiner albums (Deep Blue). I love evaluating the classical stamps for a country, and reporting the findings here.
And I would appreciate any suggestions for making this effort better. Enjoy!
Jim